In the most recent edition of ARRL’s On the Air, C. Crane CEO Jessica Crotty underscores the importance of being fully familiar with your equipment long before a disaster occurs. She also highlights the essential role radio plays during emergencies, offering reliable communication when other systems fail and helping communities stay informed and prepared.
A true emergency is something like what happened recently in Oroville and Sacramento Valley area – where an emergency spillway that has never been used in the previous 48 years begins to fail. This failure threatened the lives and livelihood of over 150,000 people and resulted in forced evacuation. Everyone thinks, if they have a […]
What is the 2-Meter Amateur Radio band anyway? According to Wikipedia, “The 2 meter amateur radio band is a portion of the VHF (very high frequency) Spectrum, comprising of frequencies stretching from 144.000 MHz to 148.000 MHz.” These communications are generally FM or frequency modulated transmissions although some operators do operate using SSB (single sideband) […]
My sincere apologies. I had some technical difficulties over the weekend so I was not able to post on the blog on Saturday and Sunday. What we did is we selected six winners from those who commented on Friday’s post. The winners are: David L: SoftSpeaker™ Pillow Speaker Paulo Angelico: CC Bright Night LED Bulb […]
Congratulations to Bob Sindelar winner of the Senta-40 Wooden Headphones and Noel Napolitan for winning the GeoBulb®-3 LED Light Bulb Soft White Today’s giveaways are the CC Pocket AM/FM/WX Radio and a Power Vivid A15 LED Bulb Cool White. For a chance to win, all you have to do is comment on today’s blog. Today’s blog topic: If you […]
Congratulations to Jim Rittenhouse winner of the SoftSpeaker™ Pillow Speaker w/Volume Control and Steve Dallape for winning the Power Vivid BR30 LED Light Bulb Bright White Dimmable. Today’s giveaways are the Senta 40 Wooden Headphones and a GeoBulb®-3 LED Light Bulb in Soft White. For a chance to win, all you have to do is comment on today’s […]
Congratulations to Ed Strnad winner of the CC SW Pocket AM/FM/SW Radio and David for winning the GeoBulb®-3 LED Light Bulb Warm White. Today’s giveaways are a SoftSpeaker™ Pillow Speaker with Volume Control and a Dimmable Power Vivid BR30 LED Bulb Bright White. For a chance to win, all you have to do is comment […]
This month marks C. Crane’s 30 year anniversary! Everyone at C. Crane is celebrating and we have you to thank for supporting us these past years. Come join our celebration by participating in our 30 days of giveaways! Each day we will be giving away two products and selecting two winners. In order to participate, […]
Whether you are a casual AM radio listener or a radio hobbyist trying to hear distant or low-powered stations, there are many steps you can take to improve AM reception. Before we focus on a few of those steps, let’s take a look at a few myths and misconceptions. AM RADIO MISCONCEPTIONS Misconception: The retractable […]